This is a fun way to make labels look like they’re aged for specimen jars for your spooky decor or laboratory, for Halloween or whatever occasion strikes your fancy.
What you’ll need:
- Heavy card stock
- Glue – glue stick/rubber cement/spray glue
- Coffee – instant or leftover
- Jars
- Iron
- Paper towels
- Fonts – I got several from dafont.com
Steps
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- Be sure to do a test page first. Some printer inks CAN handle being printed first and then going through the 'aging' process, but most don't. I know ours doesn't.
- Ball up your paper into a tight ball. I pulled it apart and balled it again. Stick it into a coffee bath. It originally called for instant coffee and water, but I used leftover coffee. We make rocket fuel and knew it would do just fine.
- I played with it a bit and started to smooth it out as it began to absorb the liquid. Depending on the thickness of the paper, it can stay in anywhere from about a minute to about two minutes.
Instead of the red food colouring for the label try using a few drops of hot chocolate instead because dried blood is actually a browny rust colour